Daily Republican., 1887-04-20
NEWS SUMMARY.

High License-Tornado-Dr Ra,,-
road kioters-' Boys, Flag the L, a,n.,.
death on tho Rail.
1t Is reported from Detroit that ,h.
Legislature of Michigan is NOV oivins
attention TO the ena aosnent of a high IL
cenze law" 1t Is proposed to AZ the
saloon lfoense for towns of Is 600 ana
upward IN that Slate at 500 and tha
oond at l0,COO, the license and bond
decreasing In amount as the SIZE Of the
Town cecreases THO ninimu license
however, is to be $500.
A tornado passed through Nanse-
mond county, Virginia, on Monday
night, devastating q track about one
hundred yards in width. The house of
John Wright, six miles from Suffolk
WAS demolished. Wright was dapger.
ously injured, his wife and a man
named Luke were killed, and Mrs.
Wright's young sister Was fatally in
jured.
Three hundred drunken railroad In.
Dorers get up riot at Laplst, Mis-
souri,, on Monday night, released two
or their nun her who had been looked
up in the station. and then, dividing
into two crowds, INDUCED in a general
hght, in which several Of the combat
ants we're dangerously wounded,
A West-bOund express train ON tho
New York Central RAILROAD ran into .
landslide near 81. Johnsville, on Mon-
day night, and the engine was thrown
into the Mohawk river. Edward Ken
nat, engineer, was killed, and the fire.
man and one passenger were slightly
injured. Kennat's last words were
Boys, flag the trains"
At railroad crossing in Lancaster.
Penna., yesterday afternoon, an exsrese
train struck a wagon containing John
Becker, his wife, their daughter -in.law
and her two year old child. The old
couple were killed, and the daughter
was severely Injured. The child was
picked up off the cow catcher unhurt.
A dynamite cartridge, which hsd 70.
mained unexploded in previous round
OF holes In the new aQueduct, at Mer-
ritt's Cornert, New YORK; exploded ON
Tuesday morning, killing John Coyno
and fatally ipiuiing an unknown Hun
garian. Five other men were severely
injured.
Mayor Roche, of Chicago, was IN
stalled on Monday night. In his IT,
augural address he said the demand OF
the workingm en- for just treatment and
fair wages should be respected, b, 4
this fs not the soil" for the growth Of
Socialistic doctrines.
A cellar In Indianapolis was raided
on Monday and forty boys, whose ages
range from IL to 20 years, were found
playing poker. 25 and 30 cents limit.
The boys were neari- Ill Of respectable
families. The entrance to the celiar
was through q saloon.
The daughter of Luke Welters wa1
burned to death at Shamokin, Penna,
yesterday morning, by the explosion Of
coal.ol lamp. Her father and mother
were severely burned In trying to save
her, and the house was burned down.
A telegram from San francisco says
the -four mills In California are largely
or entirely ceasing opera
lions, owing to the rise in the price OF
wheat, which will not permit them TO-
mill at profit.
AS Tssker Haley. 18 yefrs old, .
boarder at No. 706 North Second ,treet,
Camden, was entering tb . horsS) rom
the back yard, early yTs.erdsv nEnS..
ing, he was shot in the 1eg BY some a
known person.
Major James F, K'an, Of MeKe..-
port, Penna., said to q brother of
Arch bishop Ryan, OF PhAadelphis, was
killed last evening by being thrown
from q wagon.
Robert s. Menamin, editor and pub
Usher Of the Printers Circular, and
dealer in printers supplies, died yes
tertsy, in Philadelphia, in the 54sh
) ear OF his age.
James G. Blaine passed through
Springfield, Missouri, yesterday. on
his way to Chicago.